Friday, October 30, 2015
A teacher joins the machine gunners
Frederick Almonde Coe was teaching at St Thomas' Grammar School, Essendon, when he enlisted in February 1916. The image above shows the Vickers medium machine gun on which Coe trained, and later operated in France. Rod Martin describes how the machine gun crews operated, and the outcome of Frederick's part in the war.
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